The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-25
WESTERN UNIONS PRESIDENT
DR.. Norvin Green, Who Is Paid Big SAL
airy to Act . Figure-Head.

Dr. Norvin Green, Who Is Paid Big SAL
airy to Act . Figure Head
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There is another who is worth passing word.
1t Is DIR. Norvin Green He masquerades as
president of the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany Wall street hardly knows whether to
laugh or swear when DR.. Green's name is men-
toned. A Spectator in stocks who always
scores balance on the wrong si0e of the books
In spite of his .'outside" information Gould TAX
ing care that all his hreiines shall get their
fingers burned If they NEEDLE with stocks.
man of considerable knowledge in regard to
telegraph matters and better informed as to
technical details. perhaps, than Mr. Gould, yet
ceives something like $25 600 year. could be
satisfactorily flied by any telegraph manager
OF fair experience for So, 500a year; ma seven
ty years of age, too old. doubtless, be a gen.
uine Don Juan. though the street has queer
stories to tell. For instance, it is true that jay
Gould. on one occasion, laughed for the first
time in two years on catching the Doctor in tho
Act OF paying gallant attentions to a pretty
young woman in mis- Office. 1t could hardly have
been blooming young teiegrapher, and doubt
less the Doctor did not go to the length of
osculatory demonstrations. 1t was DR. Green
VINO wanted to have Detective Price broken for
arresting two females for whose character the
Doctor kindly vouched. The Doctor is silver
haired, but does a volcano sleep under the snow2
He is q native of Kentucky, tall. sparely built,
stoop shouldered. hatchet-faced. and nearly as
BALD as Julius Cesar. He was graduated from
the medical department. of the University of
Louisville. practiced medicine for q time in that
city, served several terms In the Kentucky Leg
islature. became a director in 1854 In the South
western Telegraph Company and later its presl-
dent. The company merged with tho
American Telegraph Company. which in 1866
was absorbed by that leviathan among corpora
tions. the Western Union Telegraph Company,
of which DR.. Green became the vice president,
and in 1878 the president. on the death of Will
liam Orton, a man of far greater ability.
Green engaged in the dry goods
business in a small kentucky town, beginning
his commercial career in the midst of the panic
of 1887 Fifty years ago he went to Cincinnati
to buy his first bill of goods the head of a
small house which a relative had nearly wrecked,
and which he saved by his natural business
skill Later he drifted into telegraphy, and is
now a man of wealth. He shows none of fhe
true Southern courtesy. however, and his man.
eruff and repeline unusual de-
gree, and naturally he is not personally popu-
lar. He is, of course, mere 6eurehead pres
ident Of the Western Union, though he assumes
to speak by authority. and not a. the scribes.
Still, he is merely secretary for Jay Gould.
and obediently registers his will. Any act OF
insubordina alton on the part of the choeric Doc
tor. any effort to stand alone and ignore his
master and what would be the RESULT A bald
head in the Ruillotine basket